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How to Develop Your Skills as a Trainer

For those new to training, standing in front of fellow healthcare professionals can be a little daunting. If your training is well designed and interactive, you should have nothing to …

How to Assess Learners

Assessment demonstrates the level of competence achieved by a learner at a given point. It is undertaken at the end of training to be sure they are competent and safe. …

How to Identify Training Needs

For many courses such as clinical skills and IT training, learning needs have already been established and ready-made lesson plans are available. Identify Training Needs at the Start However, trainers …

How Can Trainers Use Online Assessment?

As with all forms of assessment, online tests should measure the achievement of learning outcomes. If any outcomes cannot be measured by computer, some other form of assessment should be …

What happens in our brain when we learn?

In the video, we explained how physical changes are made in the brain when lasting learning is created. It’s important to remember that although technology improves at an exponential rate …

Should learning be easy?

Is it possible for training to be too easy? Does this sound counterintuitive? Well, learners need to expend mental effort in order to build new connections in their brains. In …

How Can We Avoid Overloading Learners?

In Step 2.7 we noted that an overload of information is occasionally found in online learning. A similar excess can also be experienced in presentations and lectures. It usually arises …

Long-Term Memory and Working Memory

It is important to appreciate the different roles played by long-term memory and working memory in how we learn. Humans cannot simply absorb new information like a computer download. We …